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Security vendor FireEye has released a timely warning about the scale of the mobile threat facing users with a new report claiming that over five billion downloaded Android apps are vulnerable to remote attacks.

New technology about to be deployed by credit card companies will require U.S. consumers to carry a new kind of card and retailers across the nation to upgrade payment terminals. But despite a price tag of $8.65 billion, the shift will address only a narrow range of security issues.

The Internet of Things comprises networks of remote sensors capable of detecting everything from traffic to air quality, to buildings' energy consumption, to the direction of gunshots on city streets. And governments see plenty of opportunities, but the real action in implementing IoT in a public sector environment is taking place in collaborations between federal research labs and the cities where they are based.

As more of our communication is written, the linguistic fingerprints we leave provide enticing clues for investigators, contributing to the small but influential field of forensic linguistics and its controversial subspecialty, author identification. The new whodunit is all about “who wrote it.”

As targets of unprecedented, and likely some of the most costly, cyber attacks in history, financial institutions, insurance company and film studio are reeling after record-setting amounts of data, money, internal emails and more were stolen by hacker groups. But most data breaches don’t make headline news, and sometimes companies don’t know they’ve been hacked until it’s too late.

In 2012, Dr. Jon Gould at American University published what is perhaps the most comprehensive study on the causes of erroneous convictions. By far, the most risky scenario identified were cases having young defendants with existing criminal records. Other factors related to prosecutorial and investigative tactics, as well as bad lawyering by defense attorneys. At the bottom of Gould’s list, however, was faulty forensic evidence.

In the New York City of the late 1970s, things looked bad. But people still went to the city every day because that was where everything was happening. And despite the foreboding feelings hanging over New York at the time, the vast majority of those people had at most minor brushes with crime. Today, we all dabble in some place that looks a lot like 1970s New York City—the Internet.

A senior US official has admitted that the first ever destructive cyber attack on an American firm by a nation state last year was carried out by Iranian operatives against the Las Vegas Sands casino group.

John Hanlon, executive director and legal director at the Illinois Innocence Project at the University of Illinois Springfield, wants attention to be paid to the status of biological evidence after a conviction.